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Imaging Her Selves Frida Kahlo's Poetics of Identity and Fragmentation
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Gannit Ankori
Book Code: GM1565
ISBN: 0-313-31565-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31565-7
336 pages, photographs
Greenwood Press
Publication: 1/30/2002
List Price: $102.95 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Though often portrayed in scholarly literature as a "spontaneous" artist, Frida Kahlo worked in a quite deliberate manner, basing her paintings on diverse cultural and philosophical sources. Imaging Her Selves uncovers the unexplored visual and textual foundations of Kahlo's imagery, illustrating--through a detailed study of her diary, letters, library collection, and other material-- the complex multilayered meanings of the many selves she comprised. In dozens of self-portraits, Kahlo examined the conventional and unconventional roles with which she attempted to identify. Ankori's work offers an innovative interpretation of her art as a major contribution to the ongoing human quest for a fuller understanding of the meaning of self. Acknowledging her failure to conform to traditional female roles, such as that of wife and mother, Kahlo investigated alternative options. Her physical, metaphysical, social, and genealogical selves--including Lilith, La Llorona, La Malinche, the Crowned Nun, and the Hindu goddess Parvati-- are all on display in her art. Transcending typical biographical inquiries, Ankori has created a broader study of the way in which Kahlo's art both reflected and refracted her multifaceted identity.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Frida Kahlo's Search for Self
  • A Brief Biographical Outline
  • The Nascent Self: Where "I" Began
  • The Matrix
  • The Paternal Contribution
  • The Genealogical Self
  • The Child Self: Kahlo's Childhood Series
  • My Nurse and I
  • The Ousted Child: She Plays Alone
  • The Body-Self
  • The Broken Body, The Double Self
  • Displaying the Wounded Self
  • Revisioning the Female Bather
  • The Social Self
  • The Beloved and the Mexican Wife
  • The Maternal Self
  • Exploring Alternative Roles
  • The Pre-Social Self
  • The Androgynous Self
  • Trapped in a Web of Deceit and Betrayal
  • The Ascetic Self
  • Imitatio Christi
  • Emulating Christ's Mystic Bride
  • Merging Self and Other
  • Uniting with Rivera, Identifying with Parvati
  • The Ultimate Union: From Aham to Atman
  • Conclusion: The Fractured Self: Behind the "Triple Façade"
  • Select Bibliography
LC Card Number: 2001031529
LCC Class: ND259
Dewey Class: 759
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